Genesis 42:16
16One of you must go and get ▼▼tn Heb “send from you one and let him take.” After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose.
your brother, while ▼▼tn The disjunctive clause is here circumstantial-temporal.
the rest of you remain in prison. ▼▼tn Heb “bound.”
In this way your words may be tested to see if ▼▼tn The words “to see” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
you are telling the truth. ▼▼tn Heb “the truth [is] with you.”
If not, then, as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
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